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THE GAFFNEY LEDGER PENS A NEWSPAPER IN ALL THAT THE WORD IMPLIES AND DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF CHEROKEE COUNTY. ESTABLISHED FEBRUARY 16, 1894 GAFFNEY, S. THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1943 $4.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Cited for Bravery MAJOR WM. M. ALBERGOTTI Maj.

William M. Albergotti, of Blacksburg and Greer, commander of a battery of artillery in North Africa, has been cited for bravery in Tunisia. Major Albergotti is a son of Capt. McK. Albergotti and the late Mrs.

Albergotti of Blacksburg. He is a graduate of The Citadel and for several years prior to being called into active army service he was superintendent of schools at Greer, where his wife and daughter. Betty, are now residing. He is widely known in South Carolina education circles. The citation awarding him the Silver Star, follows: "William M.

Albergotti, 0163669, major field artillery--for gallantry in action. On the evening of April 1943, near Tunisia, Major Albergotti proceeded forward of his battalion position to make a reconnaissance of new gun positions for forward diplacement of the battalion. Hampered by extreme darkness and with mentary knowledge of the terrain to be encountered, he assiduously searched through the night, finally locating suitable positions at dawn. Meticulously directing the occupation of position, he subjected himself to constant enemy aerial bombardment and intense artillery fire. Through his calm, and inspiring leadership the displacement was accomplished without misadventure, notwithstanding the excellent enemy observation.

His actions were an inspiration to all, worthy of the highest traditions of our armed forces. Residence at appointment: Greer, South Carolina." Captain' Albergotti has another son. Julian S. Albergotti, who is a major in the army. He has been serving in Iceland for many menths.

Red Cross Work Room Will Open Here Next Week The surgical dressing work room of the American Red Cross will open next week, it was announced yesterday by Mrs. B. W. Middleton. chairman.

There will be a meeting this afternoon at 3 o'clock of the surgical supervisors at the Red Cross chapter house, she said. It is important that all supervisors attend this meeting, it was stated. Mrs. Middleton stated the schedule of the days the dressing room is to remain open will follow in a later issue of The Ledger. A field director is expected to attend the meeting this afternoon.

Mode Baby Dies At Parents' Home James Hastings Mode, onemonth old son of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Mode, died about 5:25 o'clock Monday afternoon at the home of his parents near Irene Mills. Funeral services were conducted at 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the residence by the Rev. Paul Dobbins.

Interment was in the Draytonville church cemetery with the Shuford Hatcher Cimpany, morticians, in charge. The baby is survived by his parents: two brothers, Donald and Junior; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. C.

Baker, of Fort Mill: and his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mode, of Gaffney.

7 Workers Killed In War Plant Blast Cleveland, Aug. workers of the Ferro Enamel corp. were killed and six were injured severely late today by an explosion in the plant's paint-mixing division. The dead and injured workers, who were engaged in mixing camouflage paints in close proximity to the equipment which exploded, were burned. FBI agents and Army officials were engaged in an investigation to determine the cause of the blast.

BLACKSBURG ELECTION ORDERED FOR SEPTEMBER 7 Melon Raid Party Meets Disaster At Hickory Grove Registration Books to Open Boy Dies, Girl Hurt as Truck Turns Over Blacksburg, Aug. reported watermelon-raiding party turned into grim near Hickory Grove Monday night when a truck overturned, killing a 17-year-old boy instantly, seriously injuring a 13-year-old girl, and hurting five others less seriously. The dead youth was John Frank Wilkerson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilkerson.

Nan Ola Wilkerson, a cousin of the dead boy, was badly injured. She was taken to the York County Hospital, where she was reported to be still unconscious today. Other young people in the party who received cuts and bruises when the truck turned over included Ruth and Eleanor Wilkerson, Rosebud Lanier, Robert Brice and Roy Turner, all of the Hickory Grove area. The accident happened at 11 p. immediately in front of Unity church.

According to information received here, the young people had stopped at A watermelon patch. The owner of the melons was said to have fired a shotgun. The boys and girls jumped into the truck and dashed off. The vehicle overturned on a curve in front of the Unity church with disastrous results. John Frank Wilkerson was a pupil in the tenth grade of the Hickory Grove High School.

He was a member of the Mount Vernon Methodist church. where funeral services were held at 6 p. m. Wednesday with the Rev. R.

A. Hughes, the Rev. R. M. Beil, the Rev.

W. A. Duckworth and the Rev. J. A.

Chandler officiating. Interment followed in the Hickory Grove Funeral cemetery Home, with the morticians, Sims King charge. In addition to his parents, the boy is survived by three sisters, Mrs. Bonnie Dowdle of Sharon. route 1, and Misses Geraldine and Mazie Wilkerson; and three brothers, Thomas and James Henry Wilkerson, in the United States Army, and Wayne Wilkerson of Hickory Grove.

Negro Man Fined For Reckless Driving, Report Robert Widen, negro man, was tried and sentenced Monday in magistrate's court on charges of reckless driving on highway No. 29 early Sunday morning, it has been announced. Magistrate J. N. King, who presided over" the court, imposed a sentence of $100 or 30 days.

The negro paid the fine. Mr. King stated. The arrest was made early Sunday by Sheriff Lee Allison and officers. It was stated that Widen hit another car owned by James Rey, negro man from Spartanburg, and tore a bumper off.

Both cars were from Spartanburg, officers said. Magistrate King said that Widen's car is being held for damages of the other car. Spot Averages. New Orleans, Aug. average price of middling 15-16thsinch cotton at ten designated southern spot markets was 5 cents a bale higher at 20.63 cents a pound; average for the past 30 market days, 20.85: middling average, 19.63.

Rotary Club Speaker DR. R. B. BURGESS Urges Keeping Real Values In War Time Dr. R.

B. Burgess of Spartanburg, president of the Spartanburg Junior College, was the principal (speaker at a "ladies' night" meeting of the Gaffney Rotary Club at the Hotel Carroll Tuesday evening. Dr. Burgess, who served for several months as rent director of the Spartanburg area under the federal housing program, delivered a humorous talk that greatly entertained the Rotarians and their guests. Turning serious for a few moments, he urged that the everyday values of life that are 80 worthwhile in peace times be cherished and maintained during the war.

Probate Judge Roy C. Cobb, who is president of the club, presided over the meeting. Veterans Have Speakers At Meeting Tuesday State Commissioner J. A. Bagnal.

of Columbia, and Corporal Pat Meredith. of the WAC's, were the chief speakers at the meeting held Tuesday night by the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the American Legion hall in the Irene Park, it was announced yesterday. Mr. Bagnal stated that 500 boys who are now serving with the armed forces across the seas have joined the Veterans. He added that all those across have the privilege of joining if they so desire.

Corporal Meredith made an interesting talk on the duties of the WAC's in service. A chicken supper was served to present. U.S. C. Chosen.

Columbia, Aug University of South Carolina in Columbia has been selected by the Navy Department for advanced training for naval reserve officers who are now apprentice seamen, studying at colleges under the Navy V-12 program. This advanced training at institutions like U. will qualify them for commissions in the regular navy. the Naval OTC is at ent only training leading to deck commission in the regular Navy other than successful graduation for the United States Naval Academy. Men Deferred for Farming Subject to Immediate Call If They Accept Other Jobs Selective service registrants have been deferred for farming will become liable for immediate call for military service as 80011 as they engage in some other occupation, it was announced here yesterday.

Under new instructions received from Brigadier General Lewis B. Hershey, national director of the selective service system, men deferred for farming who enter other lines of work will be called before men who are reclassified from 3-A to 1-A. Major Henry C. Moore, chairman of the Gaffney board, pointed No Change In Income Taxes By New Plan Saying there has been no change in the income tax law, Dr. A.

J. Eastwood, member of the faculty of Limestone College, who is county co-chairman for war bond sales, yesterday pointed out that the withholding plan is simply a system of paying-as-you-earn. He said: "Cherokee county failed in achieving its quota of $59,000 in War Bond sales for the month of July by more than $10,000. "There are a number of factors which account for our failure. I believe that the chief explanation is to be found in the fact that our people do not fully understand the new tax deduction of 20 per cent.

To me the whole system seems quite simple. In the first place we do not have any new income tax law. The rates are the same as of last March when we last paid our income taxes. The only difference in the new set-up is that instead of paying all of my tax say on March 15 of next year, I now pay," in 12 monthly installments. me assume that my income tax will be $360.

Instead of paying this full amount next March 15, I am paying it in monthly installments of $30. To is a real convenience. Furthermore the government tells me that if when my income tax returns are filed it is found that my tax should than $360, the amount which I shall have paid in by that time, then the government will be obliged to grant corrections me a refund or make such, as necessary. "There are two nrimary means, by which the goverament may get the money necessary to pay for the execution of this war. The first is by taxes; the second is by the sale of bonds.

If the government cannot get enough money by the sale of bonds there is only one alternative, and that is to increase In other words, if this war is to be won the government must have money, and if you and I are not willing to loan our money to the government by buying bonds then the government will take our money by means of taxes. These are simple words but they are the plain powerful truth." Probate Judge Roy C. Cobb, who is general county war bond sales chairman, said: "Cherokee county citizens purchased a total of $46.481.00 (issue price). worth of Bonds during the month of July, thereby failing by about $13.000 to reach its July quota of $59.200. Sales reported were as follows: Gaff'ney postoffice, Gaffney Manufacturing Company, Henrietta Mills at Cherokee Falls, Piedmont Federal Saving and Loan Association, Merchants and Planters National Bank, Hamrick Group of Mills, Blacksburg post office, Creek postoffice, $337.50.

"A result of the July 'Shangri-la' drive approximately fifty places of business in Gaffney are handling war stamps. Fifteen dollars were offered as prizes by three of the business men in Gaffney. These prizes were awarded as follows: First prize in the amount of $8.00 to Mrs. Floyd Robbs of Bell's Department Store, who sold a total $1,016.00 worth of stamps and bonds: second prize of $4.00 to V. N.

Cash of the Bargain Center, who sold a total of $556.80 worth of stamps and bonds; third prize to Mrs. Harry Jones of The Bargain Center, who sold a total of $523.25 worth of stamps and bonds. "The various Lians Clubs over the State are, putting on a concerted drive during the month of Auguest, to each sell $25,000.00 worth of Bonds for the purchase of a tsainer plane. Our local Lions Club is participating in this drive. M.

P. Nolan, president, has announced the appointment of the following committee: Claude Littlejohn, chairman; E. V. Hinton and M. B.

Salmon." No Developments For Italian Peace London, Aug. war cabinet met last night to consider "new military developments," especially the Sicilian offensive, it was said authoritatively early today. The British Press association reported that there had been no new developments in the political situation 80 far a8 Italy was conI cerned. Blacksburg Natives in Army Air Corps Three brothers born in Blacksburg who now flying in the armed services are shown above. They are sons of Mrs.

A. L. Little, of Calhoun street, New Orleans, and the late Dr. Little, who was a prominent physician at Blacksburg for 15 years before he joined the Army Medical Corps. From left to right are shown Major William L.

Little, on duty at Patterson Field, Ohio; Lieutenant Robert Little, San Antonio, Texas; and Naval Aviation Cadet Horace Little, Corpus Christi, Texas. Maurice, a twin brother of Horace, will leave New Orleans today to report to the Army Air Corps. Mrs. Little, the mother of the four flyers, is planning to "come home" soon for an extended visit. Mrs.

Godfrey Appointed to Supervise Lunch Program for Schools in Cherokee County Mrs. Delta Godfrey, of the worth community, has been appointed as county school lunch supervisor for Cherokee county under the new state school lunch program which is being put into effect, it was announced yesterday. The appointment was made by the State Department of Education upon the recommendation of the Cherokee county school board. A district school lunch meeting was held in Greenville Monday for the purpose of outlining the duties of the county supervisors, and also to explain how program works. Mrs.

Godfrey attended the meeting. The purpose of the state school lunch program is to continue and expand program in the public South Carolina. schoolunch in co-operation with the Food Distribution Administration of the U. S. Government.

Funds are made available by the Food Administration for all schools wishing to participate in the program at the rate of seven cents a day per pupil, Mrs. Godfrey stated. These schools have to meet certain requirements before can operate the lunch program, she said. Surveys are being mailed to all school principals in the county. and after these have been filled out and returned, Mrs.

Godfrey will determine which schools can maintain a lunch room. Mrs. Godfrey will have charge of the distribution of food sent into the county for the schools, She will also be responsible for compiling all records of foods used on the program by the month. She announced that a carload potatoes is expected to arrives here within the next ten days to be distributed to the schools taking part in the program this fall. Workers for the lunch units will be provided by each school that meets the requirements.

Mrs. Godfrey will assist the workers in organizing the lunch rooms. The work of the county school lunch supervisor is not new, because a similar program was carried out by the WPA project which was organized in November. 1935. Mrs.

Godfrey was supervisor of this project from the time it began until March 30, 1943, when the WPA was liquidated in South Carolina. The types of meals and rates of payment by the War Food Administration follows: Type A-9 cents maximum with one-half pint whole fluid milk as a beverage; cents maximum without one-half pint whole fluid milk as a beverage. A complete lunch providing one- I third to one-half of day's requirements and consisting of (1) at least one-half pint of milk as a beverage; (2) two ounces of meat or fish, or one egg, or one ounce of cheese, or cup of dried peas or beans soybeans; (3) one half two one-half cup servings of vegetables. or one of vegetables and one of fruit: (4) two slices of bread or made two of muffins whole or grain other or hot enriched cereal Or flour; (5) one teaspoon of butter or oleomargarine with added vitamin A. Items (2) and (3) may be combined in one dish provided the portion served is large enough to include the quantities indicated.

Type B-6 cents maximum with one-half pint whole fluid milk as a beverage; 4 cents maximum without one pint whole fluid milk ns a beverage. A lunch consisting of (1) at least one-half pint of milk as a beverage. (2) a one-cup serving of thick soup, chowder, stew or casserole; (3) two slices of bread or two muffins or other hot bread made of whole grain or enriched cereal or flour; (4) one teaspoon of butter or oleomargarine with added vitamin A. Type C-2 cents maximum. One-half pint whole fluid milk served as a beverage.

(A maximum of one cent per one-half pint will be charged). 'Hamp' Smith Persons May Thirty-three Dies Tuesday, Apply For War Men Going To Rites Today Ration Book 3 Croft Today John Wade Hampton Smith, 67, carpenter and farmer, died about noon Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Darwin McCraw, in the Grassy Pond community. He had been sick four months. Mr.

Smith was a member of the Grassy Pond Baptist church. Funeral services will be conducted at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Providence Baptist church. The Rev. E. Grey Jones, pastor of the Grassy Pond church, and Dr.

E. J. Trueblood, pastor of Providence, will officiate. Interment will be in the Grassy Pond cemetery with the Shuford-Hatcher Company, morticians, in charge. The pallbearers will be Boots Hawkins, Conway McCraw, Max Jones, Fred Phillips, Wofford Hicks and Paul Huskey.

Mr. Smith is survived by his wife, who before marriage was Miss Sara Henderson; three daughters, Mrs. McCraw Mrs. Mildred Liles of Gaffney and Mrs. Beatrice Stanley of Bessemer City, N.

three sons, James Smith of Gastonia, N. Holland Smith of Panama City, and W. B. Smith of Baltimore; and two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Morgan of Gaffney and Mrs.

Ida Gregory of Kings Creek. Gaffney to Play Drayton Friday Friday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock Drayton will play Gaffney, and Gaffney will go to Drayton Saturday afternoon, according to the Spartanburg County League schedule. Only one more week of the regular season remains. Gaffney is scheduled to close by meeting Mills Mill, of Woodruff, twice next week. On August 16 Blacksburg, Aug.

compliance with 'an order issued by the state supreme court, the Blacksburg city council has ordered A special general election for Tuesday, September 7. This action was taken at a council meeting, Monday night at which time Wolfe, of Wolfe Fort, Gaffney attorneys, who represented Mayor T. D. Wilkins in recent litigation over the election, was asked to write the supreme court for additional instructions concerning the election, Hughes Moorhead, city clerk, stated today. City registration books will open about August 16 and will remain open for ten days, Mr.

Moorhead said. The law requires that registration be opened not less than 20 days and be closed not less than 10 days before a special general election. The council was scheduled to hold a meeting today for the purpose of appointing managers to conduct the election. A mayor, four members of the council, and one member of the Board of Public Works are to be chosen. Nominees chosen in Democratic primaries last January and February are: for mayor, Dr.

V. M. Roberts; alderman, ward 1, William Borders; alderman, ward 2, George Hampton, alderman. 3, W. C.

Gaffney; alderman, ward 4, J. B. Quinn; Board of Public Works, Roy Nicholls. The fourth Tuesday in March was the time for the regular general election, which was held on that date, but no Blacksburg citizens had secured municipal registration certificates so there was not a single citizen who could vote. Mayor Wilkins and the members of the old council have continued serving as de facto officials.

An order issued by Governor Johnston directing that a special election be held was voided by a circuit judge's decision, after which the election tangle wAs taken direct to the supreme court. The latter handed down a decision June 15 holding that an election should be ordered, and later dismissed an appeal for a rehearing. Hughey Has Been Released on $1,000 Bond, Reported Luther Hughey, alleged driver of a car that ran over James F. Moseley, seven-year-old, Sunday evening, has been released by county authorities in a $1.000 bond, it was announced yesterday. Four or five persons were in the car at the time of the accident, offreers stated.

Hughey is an employee in one of the Spartanburg mills. James and one of his cousins were pulling little wagons along the road near the Providence church when the accident occurred. He was visiting at the home of his uncle, Bryant Moseley, who lives near the Providence church. Following the accident the child was carried to the Cherokee County Hospital, where he died shortly after arrival. He was son Mr.

and Mrs. DeWitt Moseley, of Sixth street. Coroner W. P. Batchelor has set the inquest date for Wednesday, August 11.

The inquest will be held at the court house. Funeral services were held for the child Tuesday afternoon at the home of his parents. County ration board officials said yesterday persons who have not received war ration book Three through the mails should apply in person to the county war price and ration center on Limestone street between now and August 10. All late applicants must file form R-129 and retain the stub. The form will be sent in to the State ation Book Control Center at Columbia, from which all books must come.

Persons claiming non-delivbooks for which they applied must file form R-124 in addition to the original application. Books for persons who claim non-delivery will be mailed to the ration center and received from there by the applicants. Another Road Is Voted Improved By Commissioners The board of county commissioners met Tuesday and transacted routine business. The commissioners added to the road program another road to be improved. The road to be improved is from the Mt.

Ararat church to Shelt Sellers' place, about two miles in distance. All the commissioners, Rev. W. T. Boggs, County Supervisor and Mrs.

E. J. Clary, Deputy Policeman Herbert S. Bailey, Rural Policeman Talmadge Phillips and C. C.

Green, county clerk, were a 11 invited out to the county home for dinner. Those present stated they enjoyed the dinner very much. The county home is under the supervision of R. A. Collins, who assumed his duties as the operator of the home in January, 1942.

Names of a contingent of 33 men to be sent to the induction center at Camp Croft today by the local selective service board were made public by Harley J. Bradford, clerk of the board. Three members of the contingent are transfers from other boards. The list follows: Lewis Osborne Wyatt, Claude Robert Pennington, R. Marvin Victor Bright, R.

1, Box 51; Defoie Mabry, 404 W. Frederick James Stuard, R. Joseph Raymond Sheriff, R. Samuel Shaw Sarratt, R. Beauford Vincent Revels, E.

Court Rutherfordton, N. Frederick Charles Moore, R. Howard McIver Pegram, 307 W. Birnie A 174; Arthur Joseph Eugene Darwin Bachler, Osment, R. 1, Box Essex Essex, Claude Pennington, Gen.

Joe Rome Moss, R. 1: E. B. Spencer, R. 1.

Also Claude Parris, R. James Edd Plemmons, R. James William Crocker, R. Spartanburg; Joe Lawrence Proctor, R. S.

C. Riddle, R. 2, Gray Court; Oren L. Charles Harvey, R. John Charles Martin, R.

Anderson Kirby Waldrup, R. 3, Chesnee: Willard Harold Phillips, Scruggs Hoyle Spake, R. 3, Chesnee; Claude Ross Morris, R. Charles Lloyd Ruppe, R. 3, Box 218; Henry Vernon Driskill, R.

Billy Turner, 315 W. Robinson William B. Petty, 500 Rutledge Ave. Transfers from other boards: Elmer Brown Helms, R. Kenneth McClellan Price, R.

Claude Albert Hall, 301 Walnut St. Undiluted. Los Angeles, Aug. firemen drenched flames with water. Downstairs, patrons of a street-level bar uenched with beverages.

Upstairs umbrellas protected them- and their beer-. Sergeant Thomas Recovering In Army Hospital out that for every man deferred to farm some other man was called in his place. It would not be fair to those who were called if the deferred man should be permitted to engage in other occupations, as the fact that one is doing so would be considered plain evidence that he was not entitled to the agricultural deferment in the first place, the chairman declared. Major Moore said he wanted it understood that no "threat" of any kind is involved in the announcement of the rule. He said he believes the public generally is entitled to this information.

Technical Sergeant Grady E. Thomas, who was severely injured in an accident several months ago while serving as master instructor at an amphibian engineer maintenance training school, has been transferred from an army general hospital at Fort Devine, to the Moore General Hospital at Swannonoa, N. C. He is reported improving satisfactorily. Sergeant Thomas is a son of the late Mr.

and Mrs. Eugene Thomas, of Cherokee county, who died while he was quite young. He was rear. ed by Mr. Mrs.

J. P. Roland, of Gaffney, and worked at the Alma Mills for a time before going to Florida several years ago. He enlisted in the army in February, 1940. His wife and children live at Bonifay, Fla.

Mrs. Allie Blair, of Gaffney, recently visited Sergeant Thomas at Swannanoa. She said he would like to receive letters from his friends. His address is Tech. Sgt.

Grady E. Thomas, Ward 418, Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, N..